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...to the future Mrs. Sauced!

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Bling! Bling!

Hello there! And grats.

So how did it happen (I mean...The actual act of him asking you....Heh)?

Congratulations!

Gratz lilly, all the best to you and the sauced one.

Nice.

Showoff.

Ding... Grats.

Grats.

Congrats! Did you get engaged in Seattle, or back home? Was it a surprise?

Good job.  Now go forth and reproduce, that there be somebody to buy games done in English.

Congrats! It looks like alcohol was involved -- that always helps! :-D

Woo hoo!

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GRATZ!!!!    :heart:

Conga Rats!


Taxi to victory!  :-D

Congratulations to the both of you.
Have a kitty in celebration.
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Grats.  Have a wonderful life togehter.

Congratulations!  :hello_kitty:

Congratz!   8-)

Coincidence this happened soon after I mentioned married people had more sex? I think not!

Congrats!

Congratulations, you wacky person I hardly know from the internet!

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It's not true.  Married people have all sorts of reasons not to have sex.  If Merusk says he's having more sex after,  he's either lying or there's something wrong with his  marriage.

Maybe he's having sex with someone not his wife. Afterall, he's "married" and "having sex", just not with his wife.

Yes, that's the only explanation I can come up with.

Don't blame me y'all don't follow the norm.

Paper. (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=623334)
Top 10 marriage Myths (http://health.discovery.com/centers/loverelationships/articles/marriage_myths.html)

Having a partner into all the things you are helps, too. Thus why I also advocate lots of experimentation before marriage.  :-D

Oh, and grats again Voodoo, to get back on topic.

Thanks Bruce.

It disturbs me that's the first thing you thought of.

Lets not spoil sauced and voodoo's party, shall we?  :-)

Me too.. since I didn't mean anything like that. Jebus.

The only clear memory I have from my various courses in Calculus was something a teacher called Grummel's Third Law:

"A dirty mind is a source of constant solace."

Grummel's Third Law has served me well, over the years.

Grats! Hope that ring has +crit on it.

Is that why we never got engaged?  You didn't want me to whip you arse in PvP?

Good for you two! Hope everything works out, we know you two aren't going to starve any time soon, going by the yummy food posts...

Congratulations!

Good tidings to you both.

Congratulations! My gf is lobbying hard for "the rock". Getting engaged is scary!

Good luck planning a wedding and all that fun stuff.

It's funny - We now have 2 or 3 photos of VDL's hands.

Congratulations and good luck! Getting married was one of the best things I ever did in my life.

Thanks everyone! I'm back. Long week, longer weekend.

Yes, he proposed at Cafe Campagna in Seattle on our one-year dating anniversary. Very romantic. Since we'd talked about getting hitched for some time, it wasn't a huge surprise (plus he was being really funny and fidgety). He sorta waited for our side of the restaurant to clear out a little, and then when I got back from the restroom he got on one knee. Very genteel and sweet.

Here's the thing: I'm not having any maid of honor or bridesmaids, but I'm having a best man (so is Sauced). However, my best man will obviously not be planning any showers or parties for me, and will clearly not be taking me to get facials (oh, god- you know what I meant) or helping me try on dresses. So my most recently-married girlfriend is my "wedding coach". I'm thinking chantrelle picking for the bachelorette party. I'm thinking a Viking/Huntress/Voodoo/Wood Nymph kinda thing. Maybe I'll carry a sword instead of a bouquet. Or carnivorous plants instead of flowers. Who knows. We're taking a year to plan, so sometime around Oktoberfest 2006.

Whee! I can't wait!

If I get a net degree of some sort, can I be the priest/rabbi/whatever that weds you?

I promise to wear my best burlap suit.

I really wanted to be the maid of honor. Damnit.

I can never tell when you're joking, schildy.  :-o





You can get one online from the Unitarians.

Shockeye, you can throw my bridal shower if you want. We'll be registering at Sur La Table, Williams and Sonoma, and Big Red's Taxidermy Emporium.

wtf? taxidermy empornium? i can't even bring myself to capitalize.

How very Freudian of you.

You see, there's this porn bitorrent site called the Empornium. I'm sure there are many people here familiar with it. It's good stuff.  I don't think I need to tell you that it's NSFW. I'd link, but I'm having moral issues about giving out a link to licensed products. Even if it's a dvd-rip of tittyfuckers 900 or whatever.

Make sure to send me a link to your registry for Williams Sonoma- my wife moonlights  there and gets a 40% discount  :-D

See, you're supposed to get a link and buy her something really expensive at 40% off and just let her think you're the most generous dude ever. But hey, now I think I'm going to make a fake registry after finding that out.

Schild, will you also be registering at the Taxidermy Emporium? God I wish there really was one. I just know a jackelope would look awesome in your new pad.

Thanks, WAP, for the heads-up. I will definitely keep that in mind. I have no idea when registry is supposed to take place. 6 months in advance? 4 months? I'll have to consult my new onslaught of bridal planning books.

Now see, that's the kind of shit you need to share wit' yo' homies in a PM or something. You're holding out on me.

Thanks for the kind words, everyone.

We got married in the registar's office in Kingston Upon Thames.  I was mildly embarrassed because I couldn't remember the order of Righ's names during the service.  He has several of them.  Oh well.  Then we went off to have a dinner/reception that his parents insisted upon.  We were not intending to have anything at all.  Righ's sister made the cake.  It was the first wedding cake she had ever made and when we cut it, dry ingredients fell out.  The cake scared me.  It was a fruit cake (traditional) and weiged about 40 lbs.  After that was finally over, our friends came to our house and we all got wasted.  The next day, I slept in and Righ went to work.

The only change to that scenario I would make would be to have mostly everything besides the sitting around getting stoned bit disappear.  Weddings are not my sort of thing at all.  So...  yeah...  I think having a voodoo wedding or something sounds loads better than those horribly tedious formal things.  I totally love my marriage, I just hate weddings.

Getting married is mostly a nightmare...BEING married rules (2 years for me tomorrow!).

The nice thing about weddings is that they give our family a chance to be togather that isn't a funeral.

I kinda want a croquembouche instead of a cake (traditional for French weddings), but they're expensive and wouldn't really fit the theme/rest of the food I'm planning. I'm hoping we can have the ceremony/reception at a nearby botanical garden. It should be a nice autumn affair.

You do not even want to know about the kinds of dresses I've been investigating today. There's one site that does mildly pretty/mostly borderline-cosplay fairytale-style dresses. The worst part is that they picked really homely models so I can't imagine anyone envisioning herself a picture of loveliness when their Guinnevere looks like a crackhead.

Congrats - what is that, wood? Nickel?

This coming from the guy who should have access to a veritable pipeline of pr0n.

In my case, it is a card and a trip to Vegas  :-D

Let's chip in and buy him a wooden nickel.  That way we cover all bases.

I totally disagree.. with the first part. I'd have that party again any time.

I am afraid that I will literally think about this every moment for the next 365-380 days. I had insomnia last night thinking/reading about wedding planning. I have spent all day today talking/posting/reading/researching dresses/venues/photographers/catering/etc. I know it's a year away and that I really do have shitloads of time to deal with it, but I'm a control freak and we're paying for this ourselves so I wanna do all the footwork myself so it's perfect. Augh!  :lol:

Come to Vegas this weekend and get it over with! I will give you each a nice green chip for your wedding  :-P

And thus was born A Bridezilla.

I'm worried I'll do the exact same thing, come any given fateful hypothetical point in time where I am ostensibly getting married.

Fortunately, I'm single. PHEW.

 :heart: Congrats  :heart:

[serious part] Congratulations!  You'll like marriage, sex or not.

[attempt at humor] OMG 1377! GG! CERMONY IN EC OR NEK???  U REG AT LGUK??  YKESHA?

[for Sauced] My wife is a control freak and she pretty much lost her God-damned mind during the planning.

Friends of mine were married recently - had a tower of wedding cupcakes instead of a traditional cake. Was a brilliant idea. Plus - the bride has an M&M thing, so they covered all of the cupcakes with personalized M&Ms, which would have been tough with a traditional cake.

Since you are in the NW. Whatever you do. I mean whatever you do... Do this...

Borracchini's (http://www.nowcake.com/cakes_wedding.htm) is the bomb.

That is who made our cake. I think they have gone downhill slightly in the past few years, but they are still outstanding.

Damnit. Now I want one. Maybe we should get one for your wife's b-day, Fur?

Do you really think she wants a wedding cake for her birthday?   :roll:

Don't make me come over there!

That could be delicious... Maybe get a pool going from attendee's. Forget her give any money you would spend on gifts and donate to Red Cross for Katrina message to people...

Lets start a BFC fund.

Butt Fuck Club? Just joking I don't know what BFC stands for.

We have Jaciva's a couple of blocks from our house - world-class chocolatiers/cake makers. The cake somehow hasn't fit into my equation yet. It's the last thing on my mind. Sauced's bro know pastry chefs though, so I figure we'll have some options.

Check out this dress  (http://www.ianstuart-bride.com/4.straw_donatella.html) (Don't look Sauced! Okay you can if you want 'cuz Emily's dressmaker won't make total knockoffs)

Does it come with the nude man attached to it? That might cause some logistics problems.

I think you need more heroin for that dress. No matter what you need more.

Big F'ing Cake.

Especially if he has hay up his ass.

The model's not that skinny, and the dress has a corset. And I'm in decent shape anyway. I think I could pull it off. Best part: no worries about hiding my tattoos from my fundy relatives (fortunately only a few haven't seen it already or give a shit), doesn't look too wedding-y and has sleeves which will be warm enough for early autumn.

Anyway, it's just a thought.

One can never have enough pipelines to quality pr0n.

It's cool.  It sort of has that slightly dirty The Corpse Bride look.  I like it!

EXACTLY. I could be buried in it! And honey, I'm not trying to fool anybody about my virginity. The cohabitation kinda soiled my honor awhile ago.

If you could get a hold of a dress like that... it would be too cool.  I suppose Sauced might have to do something like this, then:

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Heh, we've been joking about him getting platemail made for the occasion, and about me riding in on a Clydesdale wearing a horned helmet with "Flight of the Valkyries" blaring, and my best man could hold my sword during the ceremony.

It doesn't have to be a joke.  That dress screams for a slightly twisted wedding.  Of course, families might get a bit upset.  Personally, I would have been willing to nick our palms, spit in them, shake hands and call ourselves blood brothers but families need a ceremony or it just didn't really happen. 

I had some friends who got married on the balcony at the groom's parent's house. It was a very small guest list (like 40). They served appetizers and drinks beforehand, then had all the guests gather below the balcony. They then showed some scenes from Much Ado About Nothing (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107616/), and followed by a very short marriage ceremony.

It was actually kind of cool. Very intimate, and very different.

As long as there is some food and booze, family and friends will be just fine  :-D

In my opinion:  Tough shit.  It's their wedding, they get to decide everything about it.  Any crazy weird theme they want, any off the wall details, it's their choice because it's their wedding.  Anyone with the sheer gall and egotism to think that they, as a guest to the wedding, have a right to dictate its terms ought to be smacked.  You (well, ideally) only get to do this once.

(Course, if they're paying for it then it becomes trickier to tell them to fuck off and let you have the wedding you want...)

Platemail is expensive. really fucking expensive.

I mean, you could get cheap stuff, but why half-ass it?

Also, if you get a sword, get a real one....with a real edge....so you can really cut your cake with it.

Their raspbery tiramisu is the definition of sinful decadence.

Um.

Historically, the wedding is not about the bride and groom.  It's about the bride's parents.  Those who don't realise this better have their own fucking money.

Another quaint Scottish By-Law dealt with.

Fuck tradition.

We are paying for this ourselves because a) we both come from working-class families and b) we want it our way. My little brother married his knocked-up girlfriend at a sketchy neighborhood park at 6pm on a cold November evening. They wore jeans and hoodies, and the 5-person reception consisted of sheetcake from Safeway at my house. If her AWOL parents had paid for it, it wouldn't have been much more glamorous.

Tradition also means that we would be wed in a church by a minister, and nowadays that means either being a member of the church or agreeing to months of couples' couseling before the officiant will agree to perform the ceremony. We are both atheists, so this doesn't make sense. Some traditions transcend nationality.

In other news, another lovely night of insomnia, broken up by patchy sleep filled with horrific images of fox hunt themes, tweed and plaid, wool and giant hunting dogs. It was like Ralph Lauren threw up on my wedding.

Nothing says "love" quite like the ritual slaughter of small mammals.

I always miss the good news when it's fresh.  Many many gratz to you both.  Add mine as another unasked for vote supporting the wedding you two want.

Spend it all on the honeymoon, not the wedding... ;-)  To this day I can't recall much of our wedding but I remember every delicious minute of the two week honeymoon we took the next year.  (Hmm I think I may have to leave the office early today...)

Once again I'm mistaken for someone who gives a flying fuck.

Personally, it's about this joyous time I like to quote divorce statistics, so annoyed am I at the concept of marriage.

Engaged for four years, married for four, still very happy and very much in love.  Others can talk about the incongruity of it if they wish, but marriage is a suckers game.

So here's my glass raised.

I remember I made the mistake of actually giving my opinion to future wife when we were planning the wedding. She showed a bunch of bridesmaid dress pictures to me and asked my opinion. Since I was trying to be the involved husband-to-be, I told what I thought. There was this one dress that had this one part of it that I didn't like. I tried to explain to her why I didn't like it. She was really silent so i thought she didn't quite understand. I tried to explain again. That's when she said back "OK, OK, shut up!" Be confused as hell, I didn't know what to think (besides my finace finally snapped under the wedding stress). It wasn't until about an hour later that I realized that her wedding dress probably had that same one part that I didn't like. I learned to just say I liked everything.

Fast forward a few months. She and the dress looked absolutely stunning together. The part that bitched about looked perfectly fine.

Noob.

Justice of the Peace 4tw.  I don't regret a damn thing about it, nor does the wife.  Then again, she didn't want a diamond either because she thinks they're ugly stones.  Score.

Ditto, Merusk.  Mine wants a black pearl.  She also dislikes gold.

Didn't want a ring, didn't want a wedding, didn't want a reception, didn't want a fuss at all, actually.  Well, we did do the small reception thingy but only because Gordon's family needed something a bit more substantial than watching us sign a piece of paper to drive down from Scotland for....

Actually, I wouldn't have minded a honeymoon but there wasn't time for one... Gordon was having all sorts of deadlines.  We did, however, take a long weekend in Amsterdam about three months later and it was very, very nice.  We took one of those late night wine drinking canal boat rides.  Candles, wine and cheese, crusty bread, and it was very romantic.  We were stoned, however, and the man sitting in front of us was a Billy Idol look-a-like and we couldn't stop giggling at him.  Then some boys on a bridge started pouring buckets of water onto the boat.  We had seen them and closed the top to our bit but, unfortnately, we were too busy laughing at what was about to happen to warn anyone.  Soooo... we were the only people who's ride wasn't ruined.  (although we seem to have helped ruin everyone else's... sorry!)

That completes my pre-morning coffee trip down memory lane which I'm sure I'll regret later.

The ceremony is for the guests, especially if you don't really want one.  People feel slighted if you didn't include them in your biggest day.  We ended up with about 50 guests.  My wife and I viewed it as an excuse for a huge party, which didn't really help her maintain her sanity, but she's a control freak.  You should be able to find a freelance minister that will do what you want, and it should be easy enough to find a nondenominatory facility... but I have never been to Portland or where-ever.  I want to say that our guy was a Methodist, but he was really just a Bible-for-hire.  The families got a "church" wedding and I got married on Halloween, so it all worked out.

Justice of the peace is where we're going. Oh! We had a stroke of genius last night - I was going through my collection of vintage children's science books for invitation inspiration (stock stylized flowers and nature thingies) when I found THE PERFECT image for our invitations. It came from a book from 1948 called All About the Insect World. The caption says, "The female mantis kills the male and feeds upon its body" and shows this really cool drawing of two mantises in a lovers' embrace. The female's wings are exposed, resembling a skirt. So that's gonna be the front of the invitation. The wording and font on the inside will be the height of formality, with very fancy script and the whole nine yards. We're gonna have them embossed and everything for extra punch. I can't imagine the look on my grandfather's face when he sees it!  :evil: It'll go perfect with my bouquet of carnivorous plants.

(http://www.bradipos4.com/The%20Deadly%20Mantis-1957.jpg)

Awesome, Lily.

Is that a giant joint?

I wish the Washington Monument were composed of marijuana.

My parents didn't even have a wedding.

They just signed some papers and then kissed outrageously at the registrar desk.

"...and that is how you were concieved, there at City Hall. We still aren't allowed back."

I'd finally be able to justify the three hour wait for the elevator.  Or I'd just take deep breaths in line and eventually fly to the top.

We spent the rest of that day and most of that night,
Trying to find my brother, Bill.
Caught up with him, 'bout six o'clock the next morning,
Naked, swinging on the wind mill!
He said he flew up there.
I had to fly up there and bring him down,
He was about half crazy ..... (http://www.lyricsxp.com/lyrics/w/wildwood_weed_jim_stafford.html)

Lyrics!  Oh no!  Are you trying to get V-Lily's engagement thread denned? 

But they're funny, not angsty!

I'm sorry VL...  :heartbreak:

Yes, but Shockeye has been in a mood lately.  Who knows what he's likely to do if he sees lyrics.  He could slip right over the edge of sanity and end up down here, with me.

I think he created a special Den thread just for lyrics (I hope) so he doesn't have to euthanize a thread just because someone thinks it's funny to write out the words to "Fuck Her Gently".

Shockadoodle needs a hug before he turns into a big fwumpus.

I agree, V-Lily.  I think we should convince Furiously and Haemish to give Shockeye some good old fashioned man love!

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No.

Definately no.

Also - I know a great minister/reverand if you need one. No BS classes is his motto.

I thought you guys liked old Shockeye.  Oh well... so much for male bondage.

If they buy me a nice meal first they can do whatever they want to me. I'm easy.

Thanks, but I think we're just gonna get a justice-for-hire. If we wanted a minister, we have some in the family, and a buddy of ours has a license from the Unitarians to officiate weddings (but he's kind of a jerk-off and I don't think he'd take it seriously enough - drinking buddies aren't always the best choice for these things). The officiation is just for legal purposes anyway - the ceremony/reception is for us to celebrate our love and impeccable taste to our loved ones.  :-)

Fine - I'll just find someone elses wedding to do that weekend.